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Venus' Super-Rotation Maintained by Atmospheric Tidal Waves

Images from the Akatsuki spacecraft unveil what keeps Venus's atmosphere rotating much faster than the planet itself.

26 Apr 2020

Physicists Test Preisach Model Using Soft Magnetic Materials

Laboratory of Novice Magnet Materials working in collaboration with Spanish scientists (the University of Oviedo, Spain) tested the Preisach model using interfacing Fe-based microwires.

24 Apr 2020

Researchers Receive NSF Grant to Support Development of the Einstein Toolkit

The National Science Foundation recently awarded researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Louisiana State University, Georgia Tech and West Virginia University grants totaling more than $2.3 million to support further development of the Einstein Toolkit.

24 Apr 2020

Neutrino Study Shows Matter and Antimatter Behave Differently

Scientists from the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC), the Physics Institute of Other Energies (IFAE-Barcelona), and the Autonomous University of Madrid have discovered a fundamental property of neutrinos that had not been quantified to date.

24 Apr 2020

Mathematical Model to Accurately Gauge Temperatures of Exoplanets

Astronomers from Cornell University observed a peculiar pattern in scientific articles—describing exoplanets as cooler than predicted.

24 Apr 2020

Topological Superconductivity Could Advance Quantum Computing

Researchers at the Center for Quantum Devices, Niels Bohr Institute, of the University of Copenhagen, used a pencil-shaped semiconductor, with a diameter of only a few hundred nanometers, to unravel a new path to Majorana zero modes and topological superconductivity.

23 Apr 2020